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<blockquote data-quote="Sword of Spirit" data-source="post: 6254894" data-attributes="member: 6677017">Medium armor is still ineffective for a fighter. I already said my piece in the comments, but I'll very briefly summarize the conclusion.After lower levels the only medium armor with any incentive for use by a fighter is mithral scale. If you prefer to avoid stealth disadvantage you can wear mithral scale instead of plate at the cost of one point of AC. The problem is that if mithral isn't standard purchasable armor dragon scale is your only top-end choice which has disadvantage and worse AC than plate. An effective fighter either has to wear heavy armor, or go all Dex and wear light. Note that neither heavy nor light armor requires a mithral version to maintain it's effectiveness relative to medium armor. Medium requires mithral merely to keep up.A fighter should be able to choose a balanced approach with a Dex of 14 and have a benefit from wearing medium armor--which he can't right now without supposing the existence of items that will be treated by many DMs as equivalent to magical armors.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sword of Spirit, post: 6254894, member: 6677017"] Medium armor is still ineffective for a fighter. I already said my piece in the comments, but I'll very briefly summarize the conclusion. After lower levels the only medium armor with any incentive for use by a fighter is mithral scale. If you prefer to avoid stealth disadvantage you can wear mithral scale instead of plate at the cost of one point of AC. The problem is that if mithral isn't standard purchasable armor dragon scale is your only top-end choice which has disadvantage and worse AC than plate. An effective fighter either has to wear heavy armor, or go all Dex and wear light. Note that neither heavy nor light armor requires a mithral version to maintain it's effectiveness relative to medium armor. Medium requires mithral merely to [I]keep up[/I]. A fighter should be able to choose a balanced approach with a Dex of 14 and have a benefit from wearing medium armor--which he can't right now without supposing the existence of items that will be treated by many DMs as equivalent to magical armors. [/QUOTE]

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